ERCOT Market Summit - Presented by Infocast

February 13 - 15, 2024
Austin Marriott Downtown
Austin, TX

Understand the Impacts of the Huge ERCOT Policy, Regulatory and Market Design Changes Being Implemented Now!

The largest reforms in the history of ERCOT will be implemented over the next two years. Multiple market and rule reforms will bring enormous changes to how power sales will be rewarded, introduce new products and services to increase reliability and resilience, and initiate the $10B Texas Energy Fund, a loan guarantee and grant program aimed at jump-starting investment in dispatchable generation, BTM energy assets, and transmission infrastructure. And the potential remains for more drastic energy legislation to create policy risk for the ERCOT market in the future.

At the same time these multiple reforms will be implemented in ERCOT, a series of external shifts and challenges will be hitting the Texas power sector as well. Massive additions to load, an avalanche of new storage and generation capacity, more extreme weather, and growing price volatility will increase risks, open new opportunities, and create headaches for power asset owners, developers, wirecos, QSEs and investors. How will these changes impact market participants, and how are they planning to deal with the ongoing policy and market uncertainties?

Infocast's ERCOT Market Summit will provide an unparalleled deep dive into these impending changes, and provide serious insights into the directions they will drive the market. A stellar group of policymakers together with utility, solar, wind, IPP, finance, and trading executives will explore the tumultuous future of this massive power market, and examine the impacts on resource adequacy, power prices, project siting and bankability, and how to best meet the shifting needs of commercial, industrial, and retail customers.

This unparalleled group of experts and insiders will:

  • Assess how massive regulatory and market rule changes will impact ERCOT in 2024 and beyond
  • Evaluate how the potential solutions to increase capacity and improve reliability could affect energy costs and asset profitability
  • Explore the huge opportunities and dangers of developing storage in ERCOT
  • Understand how policy changes, permitting hurdles, supply chain issues, and load growth are affecting opportunities to deploy solar and wind in ERCOT
  • Examine how the IRA is driving hydrogen, CCS, synfuel and other industrial decarbonization efforts…and the opportunities these are opening for power providers
  • Learn what will be needed to assure the bankability of projects in ERCOT, as well as the impacts of the new IRA tax incentives

Last year Infocast's ERCOT Market Summit reached new heights in terms of attendance and audience satisfaction. Attend the ERCOT Market Summit along with 600 of your peers and take advantage of your best opportunity to connect with key players, hear their plans for the upcoming year, and discuss opportunities in today’s business environment that will lead to successful deals.

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80

Expert Speakers

Hear from top industry leaders
and market stakeholders

21

Content-Packed Sessions

Gain highly-relevant,
exclusive insights and updates

Premier Networking

Connect with key decision-makers
and get deals done

SUMMIT AGENDA

Group rates available for 3 or more attendees!

FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Senator Charles Schwertner
STATE OF TEXAS

KEYNOTE PRESENTER
Kathleen Jackson
Interim Chair
PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF TEXAS (PUCT)

Bill Barnes
Director, Regulatory Affairs
NRG ENERGY

Mark Bell
President & CEO
ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRIC COMPANIES OF TEXAS (AECT)

Ned Bonskowski
Vice President, Texas Regulatory Policy
VISTRA CORP

Helen Brauner
Vice President, Business Development
LIGHTSOURCE BP

Prabhu Gnanam
Director, Grid Planning
ERCOT

Brett Kerr
Vice President, External Affairs
CALPINE CORPORATION

Aaron Klein
Managing Director
KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS

Chris McKissack
CEO
GLIDEPATH

Annamalai Muthu
Vice President, Energy Storage
ENGIE NORTH AMERICA INC.

Kenan Ögelman
Vice President, Commercial Operations
ERCOT

John Schmall, PE
Principal, Grid Planning
ERCOT

Alex Shattuck
Senior Engineer, Engineering and Security Integration
NERC

Caitlin Smith
Vice President, Policy & Corporate Communications
JUPITER POWER

Rubiao Song
Managing Director, Energy Investments
J.P. MORGAN

Resmi Surendran
Vice President, Regulatory Policy
SHELL ENERGY NORTH AMERICA

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • ACCURE Battery Intelligence
  • AEP
  • Arroyo Investors
  • Association of Electric Companies of Texas (AECT)
  • Aurora Energy Research
  • Austin Energy
  • Bitdeer
  • Calpine Corporation
  • Center for Houston’s Future
  • CenterPoint Energy
  • Citigroup
  • Compass Datacenters
  • CPS Energy
  • DNV
  • E3
  • EIG
  • Electric Transmission Texas, LLC
  • Electric Power Engineers
  • energyRe
  • ENGIE North America Inc.
  • Enverus
  • ERCOT
  • ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group)
  • Fractal EMS Inc.
  • Fractal Energy Storage Consultants
  • Generate Capital
  • Glidepath
  • Golden Spread Electric Coop
  • Greenprint Capital
  • GridBeyond
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Jupiter Power
  • KeyBanc Capital Markets
  • Kinder Morgan Energy Transition Ventures
  • Lancium
  • LCRA
  • Lightsource bp
  • Lotus Infrastructure Global
  • Marathon Digital Holdings
  • McDermott Will & Emery LLP
  • Morgan Stanley
  • MUFG – Project Finance, Americas
  • National Grid
  • NERC
  • NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
  • Nord/LB
  • NRG Energy
  • Origis Services
  • OTC Global Holdings
  • Potomac Economics
  • Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT)
  • Q CELLS USA Corp.
  • R Street Institute
  • Riot
  • Rockland Capital
  • Shell Energy North America
  • Spearmint Energy
  • State of Texas
  • Stem
  • Sunnova Energy
  • Tenaska Power Services Co.
  • Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance
  • Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance
  • Texas Industrial Energy Consumers
  • US Bitcoin Corp
  • Vistra Corp.
  • Wartsila

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • ERCOT
  • Corporates & Co-Ops/Munis
  • Financiers
  • Traders & Power Marketers
  • Attorneys
  • Analytics
  • PUCT
  • Utilities
  • Renewable Energy & Storage Developers
  • Equipment Vendors
  • Consultants

PAST PARTCIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

 

  • ERCOT
  • Public Utility Commission of Texas
  • Railroad Commission
  • IOUs and Public Power:

  • AEP Texas
  • Austin Energy
  • Brazos Electric Cooperative
  • Bryan Texas Utilities
  • Centerpoint Energy
  • CPS Energy
  • Exelon
  • Golden Spread Electric Coop
  • Hunt Energy
  • LCRA
  • Liberty Power
  • New Braunfels Utilities
  • Oncor Electric Delivery
  • Vistra
  • Xcel Energy
  • Developers and IPPs:

  • Acciona Energy USA Global
  • AES Clean Energy
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Avangrid Renewables
  • Avantus
  • Boralex
  • Broad Reach Power
  • Calpine
  • Competitive Power Solutions
  • Constellation
  • Convergent Energy and Power
  • Duke Energy Renewables
  • EDF Renewables
  • Edison Energy
  • Enbridge
  • Enchanted Rock
  • Engie
  • FlexGen Power Systems
  • Hecate Grid
  • Lightsource bp
  • Longroad Energy
  • LS Power
  • National Grid Renewables
  • Nexamp
  • Nextera
  • NRG Energy
  • Orsted
  • Pattern Energy
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • Q Cells USA Corp.
  • Recurrent Energy
  • Renewable Energy Systems (RES)
  • Repsol Renewables North America
  • REV Renewables
  • RWE Renewables America
  • Savion, LLC
  • Solar Ranch
  • Southern Power
  • Spearmint Energy
  • Sunrun
  • Tenaska
  • Tesla
  • TexGen Power
  • Wartsila
  • Engineering and EPCs:

  • Bechtel Enterprises
  • Burns & McDonnell
  • Electric Power Engineer, LLC
  • Mortenson

    Engineering and EPCs (Cont.):

  • Primoris Services Corp.
  • Rosendin Electric, Inc.
  • Ulteig
  • WSP Golder
  • Analytics, Consulting Services and Platforms:

  • AB Power Advisors
  • Ascend Analytics
  • Aurora Energy Research
  • cQuant.io
  • Customized Energy Solutions
  • DNV
  • E3
  • Empower Energy
  • Energy Exemplar
  • Enverus
  • enXchange
  • Fractal Energy Storage Consultants
  • FTI Consulting
  • Gaiascope, Inc.
  • Gee Strategies Group
  • GridBeyond
  • Schneider Electric
  • TRC Companies
  • Equipment and Service Providers:

  • Anza / Division of Borrego
  • Caterpillar
  • GE Renewables
  • Hanwha QCELLS
  • Mitsubishi Electric
  • Hitachi Energy
  • Ingeteam
  • Finance and Investment:

  • Active Power Investments LLC
  • Arch Insurance
  • Bank of America
  • Bostonia Partners
  • CIT Bank
  • Citi
  • Eolian, LP
  • Fortescue Future Industries North America
  • Goldman Sachs
  • JPMorgan
  • Leyline Renewable Capital, LLC
  • Marathon Capital
  • Mitsubishi HC Capital (USA)
  • Munich RE
  • Pathward
  • Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners
  • Resurety
  • U.S. Bank
  • Traders and Power Marketers:

  • ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC
  • Citadel
  • Enel X Advisory
  • Engie Energy Marketing
  • Goldman Sachs
  • JERA Americas Inc.
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Mercuria Energy America, LLC
  • Mitsui & Co.
  • OTC Global Holdings
  • PetroChina International (America), Inc.
  • Phillips 66
  • Shell Energy North America
  • Tenaska
  • Tokyo Gas America
  • Vistra

2023 RECAP

 

VENUE

 

Austin Marriott Downtown
304 East Cesar Chavez Street
Austin, TX 78701, US
Phone: (512) 457-1111

Room Rate: $289
Reservation Call-In No: (512) 457-1111
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Cutoff Date: Monday, January 22, 2024
Group Name: Information Forecast, Incorporated ERCOT Market Summit


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Enverus

Website

Enverus Power & Renewables brings clean, analytics-ready data into an intuitive platform, empowering you to get straight to higher-value analysis and insights. Whether you are seeking historical data to assess the profitability of new power project opportunities, or you are a seasoned power trader utilizing financial hedging instruments, Enverus supplies essential data and analytics for the power and renewables space.

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Website

McDermott Will & Emery propels the success of the world’s most respected, dynamic and important organizations. Together, we fuel missions, knock down barriers and shape markets. As a business operating in the highly specialized energy sector, you encounter unique legal challenges that require a practical and complete understanding of your industry. Our dedicated, full-service global energy team uses broad market knowledge to deliver coordinated counsel around the world, focusing on your particular transactional and regulatory needs in service of your business objectives. To help you resolve complex issues, comply with new regulations and stay a step ahead of the competition, we monitor both macro trends and local issues within the industry. With a track record of success and decades of experience in domestic markets, cross-border representations and coordinating work in foreign jurisdictions, we are well positioned to provide you with comprehensive advice in any area of energy law.

National Grid Renewables

Website

National Grid Renewables, part of the competitive, unregulated National Grid Ventures division of National Grid (NYSE: NGG), develops, owns and operates large-scale renewable energy assets across the United States, including solar, wind and battery storage. As a farmer-friendly and community-focused business, National Grid Renewables develops projects for corporations and utilities that seek to repower America’s electricity grid by reigniting local economies and reinvesting in a sustainable, clean energy future. National Grid Renewables has a robust development pipeline of wind, solar and battery storage projects in various stages of development throughout the United States, as well as geographically diverse operational assets across the country. It supports National Grid’s vision of being at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future for all. To learn more about National Grid Renewables, visit www.nationalgridrenewables.com.

ACCURE

Website

ACCURE is the leading provider of predictive analytics solutions for battery energy storage. We empower companies to reduce risk, enhance performance, and maximize the business value of their energy storage investments. Our advanced AI algorithms simplify the complexity of battery data, enabling safer, more reliable, and more sustainable operations.

With deep expertise in battery technology and data analytics, we deliver unique clarity to energy storage management. Our solutions enable customers worldwide to optimize the performance and safety of their battery systems while minimizing costs and environmental impact. Visit accure.net to learn how you can achieve your energy storage goals.

Aurora Energy Research

Website

Aurora Energy Research is a market-leading energy analytics company. With over 225 experts covering European, Australian and US power markets, Aurora provides transaction support, project finance, and subscription insight to utilities, developers, investors and lenders. The core of the business built around belief in the power of sophisticated modelling and data to help deliver actionable insights for the energy transition. Aurora is one of the few respected energy pricing analytics providers that delivers sufficiently rigorous and accurate forecasts to be bankable across a number of regions. Aurora’s head office in the USA is in Austin, TX.

DNV

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DNV is a leading independent assurance and risk management company. We provide clients with advice and market insights, services, certification, and advanced digital solutions grounded in deep engineering and technical expertise that help them seize opportunities and tackle risks arising from the energy transition. This includes averting a climate crisis and ensuring an equitable, sustainable energy future. Our experts empower customers across the energy value chain to de-risk, decarbonize, maximize value, and safeguard life, property, and the environment. We are also leading by example, with a bold ambition to become a carbon positive company.

Fractal EMS

Website

Fractal EMS is a fully vertical controls platform that includes software, controllers, integration and analytics (with optional monitoring, maintenance and bid optimization). Fractal provides all of the following: 1) controls 2) networking 3) SCADA 4) cybersecurity 5) HMI & historian. Fractal EMS provides full command, control, monitoring and management for a single asset or fleet of assets (located anywhere in the world). Fractal EMS was designed by experienced operators to maximize safety and profitability of storage and hybrid systems. Featuring an in-house team of software developers and cyber security expertise, Fractal EMS has 4 GWh in operation globally and over 13 GWh of awarded projects. Visit the website for more

Fractal Energy Storage Consultants

Website

Fractal Energy Storage Consultants is a specialized energy storage consulting and engineering firm that provides expert financial analysis, owner’s engineering, procurement, due diligence and advisory services for energy storage and hybrid projects. Fractal has unmatched experience with nearly a thousand utility-scale energy storage engagements since 2013. Fractal provides utilities, developers, EPCs and investors, with unbiased and technology agnostic financial, technical and commercial subject matter expertise, enabling a one stop shop with end-to-end services. Visit the website for more information: www.energystorageconsultants.com

Stem

Website

Stem, Inc. (NYSE: STEM) provides solutions that address the challenges of today’s dynamic energy market. By combining advanced energy storage solutions with Athena®, a world-class AI-powered analytics platform, Stem enables customers and partners to optimize energy use by automatically switching between battery power, onsite generation and grid power. Stem’s solutions help enterprise customers benefit from a clean, adaptive energy infrastructure and achieve a wide variety of goals, including expense reduction, resilience, sustainability, environmental and corporate responsibility and innovation. Stem also offers full support for solar partners interested in adding storage to standalone, community or commercial solar projects – both behind and in front of the meter. For more information, visit www.stem.com

Wärtsilä Energy

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Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our customers in decarbonization by developing market-leading technologies. These cover future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimization technology, including the GEMS energy management platform. Wärtsilä Energy’s lifecycle services are designed to increase efficiency, promote reliability and guarantee operational performance. Our track record comprises 74 GW of power plant capacity and more than 80 energy storage systems delivered to 180 countries around the world.

GridBeyond

Website

GridBeyond’s vision is to deliver a global zero carbon future. By leveraging AI, we innovate and collaborate with our customers to create optimal value from energy generation, demand and storage to deliver a zero-carbon future. By bridging the gap between distributed energy resources and electricity markets, GridBeyond’s technology means every connected asset – whether utility-scale renewables generation, battery storage, or industrial load – can be utilized to help maximize opportunities and enhance the grid. By intelligently dispatching flexibility into the right market, at the right time, asset owners and energy consumers unlock new revenues and savings, resilience, and management of price volatility, while supporting the transition to a Net Zero future.

Origis Services

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Origis Services delivers the promise of clean energy with operations and maintenance (O&M) services for solar and energy storage across North America. The team manages a diverse utility scale and distributed generation portfolio with experienced professionals backed by a state-of-the-art NERC CIP Compliant Remote Operations Center (ROC) located at its headquarters in Austin, Texas. Visit us at: www.OrigisServices.com

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.

Website

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. is the US subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation responsible for serving the North American power systems, rail transportation and water treatment industries with electrical and electronic products, systems and services. Products include gas circuit breakers, vacuum circuit breakers, power transformers, gas insulated substations, power electronics and electricity transmission technologies, generator services, nuclear power plant control systems, ozone water treatment systems, uninterruptible power supplies, rail transportation equipment, and Diamond Vision video display screens.

Rosendin

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Rosendin Renewable Energy Group brings its experience and capabilities as a diversied union electrical contractor to its role as an established full-service solar EPC. Having installed over 5GW of solar across the US, utilizing various technologies across rooftop, canopy, and ground-mount installations. The RREG also provides in-house design-build solutions for MV collection systems, turnkey substations, transmission installations, and battery storage systems for all types of renewable energy projects.

Advanced Power Alliance

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CleanTX

Website

The mission of CleanTX is to accelerate the growth of the cleantech industry in Texas through information exchange, thought leadership, and strategic partnerships. Founded in 2006, CleanTX is the nonprofit economic development and professional association for cleantech in Central Texas, a $2.5 Billion industry that employs 20,000 individuals. The CleanTX community encompasses over 250 companies and an active ecosystem of entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and regional partners.

CleanTX supports cleantech innovation and adoption by: (1) Providing avenues for networking, education, and information exchange among industry and community stakeholders; (2) Facilitating strategic partnerships to launch forward-looking economic development initiatives; and (3) Promoting the growth of the cleantech industry in Texas through increased visibility, thought leadership, access to talent, and connections to local, state and national leaders. Join the CleanTX community.

Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation

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Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance

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https://www.texasadvancedenergy.org/

Texas Competitive Power Advocates (TCPA)

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Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance

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Texas Hydrogen Alliance

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Texas Solar Energy Society

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Texas Solar Power Association

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The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA)

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